We’ll start here with a definition: When I say “Irish right” in the headline above, I am not necessarily referring to those few sad cases amongst us, of which yours truly is numbered, who subscribe to Ronald Reagan’s view of a small government with lower taxes and individual freedom. We’re a dying breed in most of the English-speaking world, and never really existed here in Ireland anyway.
No: I am referring instead to the broad mass of people who might be said to comprise about 20% of the electorate who are sceptical of Ireland’s present immigration policies; sceptical of the Government’s devotion to hitting bizarre climate change targets; broadly opposed to the hate speech bill; distrusting of the mainstream media, especially RTE; opposed to the ongoing efforts to say that there are more than two genders; upset about the Government’s pandemic policies; hold sort of conventionally socially moderate to conservative views, and are broadly very annoyed about the influence of the Green Party in Government.
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